Today we will see our salvation is a journey much like the children of Israel’s of three stages. It has a goal and that goal is to enter into the Sabbath rest.

According to the divine revelation, God’s salvation is in three stages. The children of Israel experienced these three stages on their way into the Good Land. The picture painted by their experience in the Old Testament provides us with a road map into the full salvation of God in our spirit. We’ll look at these three stages of salvation in today’s life study of the Bible.

Hebrews is a New Testament book but it draws upon many Old Testament types and pictures to convey it’s New Testament message. We’re going to follow the exodus of the Israelites today. A quick sketch of this story including the parallel to the three parts of man as they related to the three stages that the children of Israel passed through…

Today in Genesis chapter 35, we come to a matter we are going to spend a couple programs on and that’s the matter of pillars. We’ve seen before that Genesis is a book in which all of the seeds of the great truth of the Bible are sown. The seed of this matter, the pillar appears first in chapter 28. We are back with it today in more detail in chapter 35. Where else in Scripture in addition to these portions in Genesis do we encounter pillars?